The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-29
BARON SEILLIERE.
4 Love Of Money Causes His Arrest and Forci-
BILE Detention in a French Mad-House.

New YORK June 2S-The Times this morn
ing prints the following history of the of
Baron Seilliere: About year ago tall, dis
tinguised-lookin man of forty years, with an
aristocratic face and sweeping black mustache,
arrived in San Francisco on his way TO his home
in Paris, after around tho world. 1t
quickly became known in the Pacific metropolis
that he was Baron Seilliere. and at the Palace
Hotel, in San Francisco, and the Hotel Delmonte,
at Monterey. he soon became familiar and re-
markable figure. The coquettish young women
of the first circles there very quickly christened
him 1.-The dear Baron" and being man
of brilliant attainments. wide experience
and amusing eccentricities, he became widely
known and very popular. He also took a great
fancy to California, often declared his intention
of settling there, and, though this was regarded
as joke, 1t was serious matter to MIN, as ne
went into the United States Court and declared
his intention of becoming a citizen. Finally he
left there and came to this city
In short time he was as we'll known at the
Hoffman House as he had been at the Palace
He possessed enormous wealth and spent his
money lavishly. He made quite circle or
friends here and when he left here for Paris.
was very generally regretted by some
These not little excited
over certain occurrences which are set forth In a
letter from one of them, which appears below.
The writer is an ex-city official of high reputa-
ton and unquestioned veracity. In an interview
last evening he said:
Il first received news Of this matter by cable
Letters have since arrived giving me full partlc-
ulars. Baron Selliere went home to adjust some
property disputes with his sister, the Princess
de Sagan the wife of the president OF the Jockey
Club and one of the best known ladies In Eu-
rope. Seiieres aunt. the Duchess de Bereh,
and his brother Frank. who lives at his estate at
Weildbae. in Germany, were also concerned.
Seilliere had scarcely arrived there before he re-
ceved intimation that there was some kind OF
conspiracy on foot against him, and he made his
friends promise that If he disappeared they
would hunt him up He did disappear, and they
did hunt him up, finding that while at his aunts
hotel he had been seized by three men, bound
and carried to the insane asylum at Vanues. of
which Dr. Falret is director. They learned,
further. that Seiiere had been decoyed into
state of extreme anger, In which he, being
very nervous individual, doubtless reached an
abnormal pitch, and. In preparation for 1t, the
Princess de Sagan. Dr. Mattel and medical re-
porter named Segnam were concealed behind a
screen. They took their own notes of what had
passed and according to the letters, their testi-
mony suffced after his seizure to'accompllsh bis
commitment. Since that time Baron Seilliere
has been a close prisoner in a ad-house."
The letter of his friend says:
This has already assumed an inter
national character from the fact that NJ De
Seilliere has declared his intention of becoming
citizen of the United States. and it is attract
ing more than ordinary interest not only in
Paris but in this country, and particularly this
city, where he was well known in social circles
Baron Raymond Seilliere is a son of Baron
Seilliere who the head of the wel-known
banking house in Paris and the owner of the
most extensive cloth mills in France. The De
Seillieres possess great wealth. variously esti-
mated at from $50, 900, 900 to 800. 000, 900, of
which large proportion, in the natural order of
things, would revert to the Baron, who is liberal
and generous fault at times profuse
in his expenditures, and who has diminished
his share considerably. To prevent further de-
crease, and to get possession of the balance.
which amounts to several millions. undoubt-
edlv the reason of his imprisonment. The mys
terry surrounding the whole matter and the i'm
penetrable secrecy preserved to his where
abouts increased the excitement caused by his
disappearance His friends, thoroughly alarmed,
engaged experienced detectives, and he was
traced to an insane asylum in Vannes There he
remains, and there he is likely to remain unless
zenship, demands his release. or until public
opinion in France is aroused to action and de-
mands the instant repeal OF the dangerous and
Ubiquitous law of 1888. which gives the family
absolute power in the management and disposal